Sandeep.

Hi there! I'm Sandeep, and I like building things, whether that means creating something new or making an existing system easier to use. I'm a technology and delivery leader with close to twenty years of experience modernizing platforms for large, regulated organizations.

I take pride in making sense of complex systems, and I have a sharp eye for the small process gaps that eventually turn into big outages. I enjoy working at the intersection of engineering and delivery, where good architecture meets steady, dependable execution.

I build AI products, including RAG based applications and conversational AI systems, and I lead technical strategy for large scale, mission critical platforms in highly regulated environments. I care about pairing hands on technical depth with the kind of delivery discipline that keeps big systems calm under pressure.

  1. Jul 2026 — Present

    AI Product Development

    Krishna Uvacha is a greenfield GenAI conversational platform, architected and shipped solo.

    • ▹Architected and shipped Krishna Uvacha to production, validating 88% response accuracy through a structured evaluation harness.
    • ▹Built the retrieval pipeline end to end using LangChain and ChromaDB, with a dual LLM setup for resilience.
    • ▹Introduced agentic memory so context and intent persist across multi-turn conversations.
    LangChain ChromaDB RAG Python Prompt Engineering

  2. Oct 2012 — Jun 2026

    Vice President · Wells Fargo India Pvt Ltd

    Technical strategy & platform governance for a $2.5T+ AUM finance ecosystem.

    • ▹Spearheaded technical strategy and platform governance across finance-critical programs.
    • ▹Directed a RAG feasibility study for AI agent adoption, reaching 80 to 85% source grounded responses.
    • ▹Integrated Bloomberg's BEAP API, retiring a third party intermediary and cutting response time by 99%.
    • ▹Automated the GL allocation process for a 58% faster daily runtime across 2M+ rows, and led a build versus buy analysis that cut projected platform costs from $4M to $1.2M.
    • ▹Standardized the L2 support model, cutting MTTR by 30 to 60% and lifting availability to 99.8%.
    • ▹Directed disaster recovery testing to a consistent 3 to 5 hour recovery window, while restructuring the team into module aligned Agile Scrum pods with a dedicated cloud modernization track.
    Python Kafka PeopleSoft Apigee Azure RAG

  3. Aug 2011 — Sep 2012

    Staff Consultant · Oracle India Pvt Ltd

    • ▹Drove requirements discovery on the PeopleSoft Talent Acquisition Model, improving system performance by about 20%.
    • ▹Delivered bilingual and multilingual support for Inspira, enabling adoption across 190+ countries.
    PeopleSoft Requirements Analysis Localization

  4. Jul 2006 — Jul 2011

    Technology Architect · Infosys

    Charles Schwab & Dow Jones PeopleSoft Finance engagements.

    • ▹Led a PeopleSoft Finance upgrade, retrofitting 900+ custom objects into stable production.
    • ▹Owned delivery governance under CMMI Level 5 standards, cutting the production ticket backlog by 30 to 40%.
    • ▹Led the Dow Jones PeopleSoft re-implementation, clearing the project's final funding blocker.
    PeopleSoft SDLC CMMI Level 5

Tech Stack

Technical Strategy & Architecture Delivery Governance Risk & Compliance (COSO / CMMI L5) Agile / SAFe Delivery Executive & Stakeholder Mgmt Talent Development ERP (PeopleSoft / Oracle / Salesforce) REST / Apigee API Integration Python Test Automation (Playwright) Event-Driven Architecture / TOGAF / SOA Kafka CI/CD (Git / Jenkins / Harness / Jira) Cloud Platforms (Azure) RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Prompt Engineering AI Guardrails & Evaluation LangChain Vector Retrieval (ChromaDB) Responsible AI Multi-Model Architecture

Certifications & Education

Certifications

  • ✓PMP — Project Management Professional
  • ✓AI Security & Governance — Securiti
  • ✓Salesforce Agentblazer Champion 2026
  • ✓Enterprise Product Mgmt Fundamentals — Microsoft
  • ✓Microsoft Azure AZ-900: Fundamentals
  • ✓Oracle Certified PeopleSoft Technical Consultant

Education

  • 🎓Post Graduate, AI & ML — IIIT Bangalore
  • 🎓MBA, IT & Financial Accounting — ICFAI
  • 🎓B. Pharmacy (Hons.) — BITS-Pilani, Rajasthan

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